Physics Simulation Forum

Is it currently possible to simulate fluids in Bullet? SPH? Velocity fields?

Thanks.

I'll tag along - I'd like to create a stream of water flowing down (by gravity), changing direction by ramps and such.

Can Bullet simulate such fluid physics?

There is currently a SPH demo in Bullet doing fluids on CPU / GPU:

Bullet\bullet-2.75\Extras\sph


The idea is to integrate the SPH code with the Bullet core to have two way interaction just like Soft Bodies in Bullet.


Once this feature is done, one can work on the feature of creating SPH fluids in Blender/BGE, but no such thing has been announced yet.

Thanks for pointing that out. Had a few troubles to build but I got it. It runs very slow on CPU (around 3 fps) but runs very fast on GPU (not sure how many fps). But it doesn't use Bullet (??).

And about fluid-rigid/soft body interaction? It doesnt use Bullet but would it be easy to integrate it with Bullet so that we get this interaction? And how much more processing would it need? And about rendering the fluid surface?

Thanks.

I think the demo was meant to give us an idea of how fluids would look like in Bullet. And to give an idea on how it performs on the GPU...

Ideally we should also get an OpenCL version of this SPH demo, so when its integrated into Bullet it will end up using the OpenCL API to access the GPU for this kind of heavy simulation.

But you're right, its a CUDA demo and it doesn't use Bullet...

The SPH fluid integration with Bullet is on the TODO list:
http://code.google.com/p/bullet/issues/detail?id=296

If you feel want to work on this integration, please have a look at the soft body/cloth interaction. Contributions are welcome. Otherwise, please be patient
Thanks,
Erwin

I'm interested in this topic. Are there any news concerning the SPH fluid integration with Bullet?